Comparing media
Mir Hasil Bazinjo, Javed Jabbar, Asad Qaiser, Mian Mehmood-ur Rasheed, Rana Afzal, Gen (r) Abdul Qayum, Senator Saud Majeed, Munzza Hassan, Mehtab Rahidi, Senator Nauman Wazir, Shehryar Afridi, Dr Shoaib…
Media in chains
This has been a bad year for freedom of expression in Pakistan. For both media and civil society, both freedom of expression and access to information have, in general, deteriorated…
Gender in the media today
Panelists speak at the launch of 'Through the Gender lens' on Monday, December 10, 2010 in Islamabad. -Photo by Dawn.com/Zeresh John With honour killings and acid attacks making frequent headlines,…
The media’s crisis of conscience
In some ways, the Axact scandal has intimations of a classical tragedy. A powerful individual has fallen because of his own monumental failings in circumstances with which he cannot deal.…
Media manoeuvring
As soon as the law-enforcement agencies formally launched the Karachi operation this year, the electronic media somehow became a sort of hot battleground between MQM and anti-MQM quarters in the…
Media’s Waterloo?
Is the Pakistani media, often described as vibrant, bold and fiercely independent, suddenly facing its Waterloo? The heart wishes to say an emphatic no but the head forces a reality…
As bank swaps trades come under rules, electronic trading may rise
Three months after new trading requirements for the $300 trillion US derivatives market were introduced, little of the market is operating as regulators intended, with mandates for most bank trades…
Media Matters
In their celebrated work Satellites over South Asia, David Page and William Crawley had not identified even the broadest contours of the enormity of challenges the private broadcast media will…
Media and its maladies
A tangled web it is. We have this uneasy feeling of being in a deep crisis that we cannot easily decipher. One would expect the media to untangle it for…
A media myth
Fortunately, both Hamid Mir, the intended victim of the April 19 shooting in Karachi, and freedom of expression will survive. Like Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, there is no scope for…
